Hoop for veneer baskets.



N5. 738,552. PATENTED SEPT. a, 1903.

E; E. LEARY.

HOOP FOR VENEER BASKETS. APPLIOATION rninn JAN. a1, 1903.

o o o B o o o o o H L t2 0 0 o o o l c 1: all YZ m UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

ELMER E. LEARY, OF ROOKHALL, MARYLAND.

HOOP FOR VENEER BASKETS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 738,552, dated September 8,1903.

Application filed January 31,1908. Serial No. HLZM. (No model.)

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER E. LEARY, of Rockhall, in the county of Kent and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improve- 5 ments in Hoops for Veneer Baskets, of which "IO are usually employed in the transportation of peaches.

The said invention consists of a narrow str1p of wood or other similar material through which nails may be easily driven, around i I 5 which is coiled, with as coarse a pitch as is practicable, an iron or steel wire,with its ends closely wrapped around the ends of the strip to make a permanent union of the two elements of the hoop.

The strip prepared as described is bent around the staves of the basket and attached thereto by means of nails, which are driven through the wood into the staves and their points clenched.

In the drawings forming a part hereof, Figure 1 is an exterior side view of a peachbasket provided with the improved hoop. Fig. 2 is an exterior View of the hoop when extended and prepared for bending around the basket.

Referring now to the drawings, A A are the staves of the basket, and B is the hoop which holds the upper ends of the staves together.

This hoop is made of wood and in the ordi-.

nary manner.

C is the hoop which holds the lower ends of the staves to the bottom of the basket. This hoop is also of common construction.

D is the intermediate hoop, formed of a narrow strip a of wood, around which is coiled the wireb.

To construct the hoop, I take a narrow strip of wood somewhat longer than the circumference of the basket at the point where the hoop is to be applied. I then take a wire and attach it to one end of the strip by closely wrapping it around the same and then coil it with a coarse pitch around the strip to near its other end, where it is wrapped closely. The strip as constructed is then bent around the basket and its ends lapped and a nail driven through the lapped ends between the closelywrapped portions of the wire into and through one of the staves and clenched. It is an advantage to make the coil of wire between the closely-wrapped ends of the same of as coarse a pitch as is practicable, as all coils have a tendency to stretch when strained longitudinally, and the amount of the stretch is reduced by increasing the pitch or distance between the coils. By placing the nail between the closely-wrapped ends of the wire on the lapped hoop the opening of the close coils is prevented. cc

I claim as my invention---- Ahoop for aveneer basket which consists of a strip of wood combined with a wire which is coarsely coiled around the same, and its ends attached to the ends of the strip by a relatively closer wrapping, the whole being bent around the basket and secured thereto by means of a nail which is driven through the lapped ends of the strip and between the closely-wrapped portions of the wire into one of the staves, substantially as specified.

ELMER E. LEARY.

Witnesses:

GEo. E. TAYLOR, GEO. J. BRENNAN. 

